#life

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#health #interrelations #life #mutuality #poverty

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#life #media #relationship #truth #life

We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life. ↗

— Bob Seger

#crew #four #get #go #got

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao. ↗

— Ruth Ozeki

#life

That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real. ↗

— Jenny Lawson

#nostalgia #life

He hugs me tight while I look behind him, scanning faces like I did a few seconds ago. And like I will do for the rest of my life. ↗

— Ashley Elston

#scanning-faces #life

When life gives you something that makes you feel afraid, that's when life gives you a chance to be brave. ↗

— Lupytha Hermin

#brave #chance #life #life

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ↗

— John Maxwell

#growth #life #life

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am. ↗

— Melanie Hooyenga

#identity #life #self #life

I wished for you," he whispered, so quietly that I struggled to hear. "What did that feel like? I've never made a wish in my life." My voice was as shaky as my words were stupid. "Everybody wishes for something, Charli." I put just enough space between us to be able to look at him. "Not me. I've saved them all up. Birthday candles, shooting stars, stray eyelashes...ladybugs. I've saved hem all up. I figure I'm owed hundreds of wishes now. ↗

— G.J. Walker-Smith

#saving-wishes #wishes #life